https://github.com/williamyang98/gps_tracking

Free Android GPS tracking app that stores data on your own personal, free and secure Google cloud account
https://github.com/williamyang98/gps_tracking

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Free Android GPS tracking app that stores data on your own personal, free and secure Google cloud account

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/williamyang98/gps_tracking
• Owner: williamyang98
• License: mit
• Created: 2024-08-21T19:17:15.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-09-16T13:11:00.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-06-21T23:05:01.173Z (10 months ago)
• Topics: android-app, free, gcloud, gps-tracker, serverless
• Language: Kotlin
• Homepage:
• Size: 2.18 MB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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# Introduction

A free and open source Android GPS tracking app that leverages Google cloud for free and secure personal hosting. Refer to ```SETUP.md``` for instructions on how to setup the project on your own Google cloud account and install the Android app.

## Features

- Store and track as many phones as you want.

- Store as many data points as you want into your Google cloud datastore.

    - Free tier is offered by Google which allows up to 1GB .

    - 2.5K data points takes up 1MB.

    - Around 2.5 million data points for free.

    - Around $0.2/GB/month when above 1GB free tier limit.

- GPS data is stored securely on your own Google cloud project and accessible only to your Google account.

- Android app will keep a timeline of all GPS locations every specified interval.

    - Handles network or internet dropouts by storing history of locations while disconnected.

    - Will upload all of these stored GPS locations once internet is available to ensure no gaps in GPS path.

    - Can be installed on as many Android devices as you want.

# Gallery

## Android App

For usage instructions read ```/android_app/README.md``` **after** you have setup your Google cloud project. Refer to ```SETUP.md``` for how to do this. 

![app_home](./docs/android_app/0_home.jpg)

![app_timeline](./docs/android_app/1_timeline.jpg)

![app_location](./docs/android_app/2_location.jpg)

![app_permissions](./docs/android_app/3_permissions.jpg)

![app_settings](./docs/android_app/4_settings.jpg)

## GPS Plotting website

![gps_plotter](./docs/website/finished.png)

## Third party GPS Visualiser website

- You can export the GPS data and visualise it on any GPS visualisation website

- [GPS_Visualiser](https://www.gpsvisualizer.com/map_input?form=html&format=google).

- Refer to ```/datastore/README.md``` for instructions on exporting data for above website.

![Visualiser viewer](./docs/gps_visualiser_viewer.png)